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Wh-fronting in Chinese.

University of Southern California., Linguistics.

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Wh-fronting in Chinese.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wh-fronting in Chinese./
Author:	Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang.
Description:	330 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jean-Roger Vergnaud.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-09A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3325212
ISBN:	9780549788782

Wh-fronting in Chinese.
Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang.

Wh-fronting in Chinese. - 330 p.

Adviser: Jean-Roger Vergnaud.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2008.

This dissertation is a theoretical investigation of wh-fronting phenomena in Mandarin couched in the Principles-and-Parameters (P&P) framework, and its recent developments within the Minimalist Program. Specifically, two constructions involving wh-fronting are investigated, including preposed wh-questions, and the parasitic gap (PG) construction. Close examination of their distributional patterns, interpretive, and syntactic properties reveals that they are best-analyzed as a type of contrastive focus construction, refuting the prevalent view that wh-fronting should be treated as an instance of "wh-topicalization" with the pre-clausal wh-phrase either base-generated or moved to SPEC-Top (Xu & Langendoen 1985, Tang 1988, Li 1996, Wu 1999, Kuong 2006, Pan 2006, inter alia). Such a proposal is further supported by the distinctive morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of topics and contrastive foci in the language. A desirable consequence of this proposal is that wh-fronting in Mandarin need not be viewed as a language-specific phenomenon nor should its coexistence with in-situ wh-questions be surprising, since the coexistence of contrastive focus constructions, such as clefted questions, and simple wh-questions, is very common crosslinguistically (Kiss 1998).

ISBN: 9780549788782Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

Wh-fronting in Chinese.
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